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New Solo Play Adventure: Kalgor Bloodhammer and the Ghouls Through the Breach

By Wade Rockett / March 23, 2012 / Articles, Front Page

As a kid, whenever I went to visit my relatives over the summer, I mourned the hours missed playing D&D with my friends. My salvation came in the form of choose-your-own-adventure type game books. Whenever I wasn’t visiting elderly second cousins and great-aunts, I’d spend hours immersed in solo adventures, battling alone against dragons, giants, […]

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Oh, I’m Going to Get Killed Any Minute Now (Part 9)

By Clinton J. Boomer / March 23, 2012 / Articles, Front Page

(Also Titled: The Ongoing Diary of Thppgrg, Goblin Minion) As ever, readers who are new to the diary, please scroll down a bit to where you see the Thppgrg tag. Click on it. Yeah, that’s right. Otherwise, if you missed part eight, you can just click here. (Art by Chris McFann.) DAY THIRTY-FIVE Pretty darn good

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Seize the Tin Crown Entry: Saint Vadim, the Hell-Tried

By James Thomas / March 23, 2012 / Articles, Front Page

Over the past several days, we’ve been posting the entries we received for the Seize the Tin Crown contest. These will each be only lightly proofread so that you, our voting public, have a chance to judge them based on your own criteria. After we post the last of the entries, we’ll be calling for

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Batter Up!

By Christina Stiles / March 22, 2012 / Articles, Front Page

Minion #7, leader of the Journeys to the Western Ocean project, has been called up to the big leagues! Yep, I’m pinch-hitting on the Kobold Quarterly magazine staff, batting for Editorial Assistant Christopher Bodan in KQ #21! I can already hear the roar of the crowds as I step up to the plate—or maybe that’s

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Seize the Tin Crown Entry: Full Kobold Steam Ahead

By Jarrod Camiré / March 22, 2012 / Articles, Front Page

In the next several days, we’ll be posting the entries we received for the Seize the Tin Crown contest. These will each be only lightly proofread so that you, our voting public, have a chance to judge them based on your own criteria. After we post the last of the entries, we’ll be calling for

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Real Steel: San Mai

By Todd Gdula / March 21, 2012 / Articles, Front Page, Real Steel

In the past, we covered forge welding as it relates to Damascus steel here. But forge welding can be used to stick hot steel together in lots of different ways. San Mai is a Japanese technique now in widespread use in Japanese style and non-Japanese style knives. It translates to “three layers.” Gimme the Steel

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Seize the Tin Crown Entry: The Clockwork Heart of St. Heviticus

By Nicholas L. Milasich / March 21, 2012 / Articles, Front Page

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Howling Tower: Respect the Lowly Dungeon

By Steve Winter / March 20, 2012 / Articles, Front Page, Howling Tower

It’s taken as gospel by many fantasy roleplayers that in the bad old days, all campaigns were about dungeons. Characters left the dungeon and returned to town only for healing and to replenish supplies. They might have a few random encounters between the town and the dungeon, but those were nothing more than distractions from

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Seize the Tin Crown Entry: Clockwork Ooze

By Clifford Alan Wolter / March 20, 2012 / Articles, Front Page

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The Lost GM Scrolls: Mike Mearls on Legos, Cinder Lords, and the City of Brass

By Jeremy L. C. Jones / March 19, 2012 / Articles, Front Page

Back in the fall of 2009, Chris Dinkins and I interviewed a host of game designers and novelists who were also experienced game masters. We sent around too many questions to too many GMs and received far too much material for one article to hold. As a result, a lot of great material got scrapped.

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Seize the Tin Crown Entry: Brandorek’s Crown

By Thomas LeBlanc / March 19, 2012 / Articles, Front Page

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Oh, I’m Going to Get Killed Any Minute Now (Part 8)

By Clinton J. Boomer / March 16, 2012 / Articles, Front Page

(Also Titled: The Ongoing Diary of Thppgrg, Goblin Minion) As ever, readers who are new to the diary, please scroll down a bit to where you see the Thppgrg tag. Click on it. Yeah, that’s right. Otherwise, if you missed part seven, you can just click here. (Art by Chris McFann.) DAY THIRTY-FOUR Odd day, today.

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Journeys into the West: Guardians and En Garde!

By Andrew Christian and Dawson Berry / March 15, 2012 / Articles, Front Page

Continuing with our preview materials, the patrons of Journeys to the West have finished generating items and spells, and now we’re heading full sail toward playtesting—presuming the winds of creativity and the authors’ muses are generous! In the meantime, patrons are looking over material, plus they’re looking for mechanical or grammatical concerns (and hoping to

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Archery Styles (Part 2)

By Rich Redman / March 14, 2012 / Articles, Front Page

A character who favors ranged attacks has many ways to master the bow, and the schools presented in this article series give you some interesting options to round out your player character. This week, we present another school of archery styles by Rich Redman. If you missed the first part, you can revisit it here.

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Howling Tower: Complexity and Option Fatigue

By Steve Winter / March 13, 2012 / Articles, Front Page, Howling Tower

By now, everyone has had time to settle into the idea that D&D is getting another revision. I’m using this week to look at some D&D history, what revisions mean, and their effects. Today’s episode concerns complexity and option fatigue. Every revision of D&D has made the game more complex somehow. Complexity comes in different

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The Lost GM Scrolls: James Jacobs Lists His Pet Peeves

By Jeremy L. C. Jones / March 12, 2012 / Articles, Front Page

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